Check out the articles highlighted on the covers of the latest issue of Advanced Optical Materials.
Optics
Optical Materials for Spectral Management
The current issue of Advanced Optical Materials is dedicated to this ever growing field of research guest edited by Stefan Schweizer and Ralf Wehrspohn.
Keeping Good Company with the Chameleon
Professor Ozin explores the chameleon’s color-shifting ability, and how the same principles have been utilised in the lab and in manufacturing.
Upconverting Nanoparticles and Polymers
This overview article focuses on upconversion-luminescent nanoparticles/polymer nanohybrids and their new interesting applications.
Shape Control of Metallic Nanoparticles: Gold Nanobipyramids
Shape control allows the polydispersity of gold nanobipyramids to be reduced to zero in one of the most downloaded Advanced Optical Materials papers.
International Year of Light: Diketopyrrolopyrroles
This month’s International Year of Light article reviews the synthesis, reactivity, and optical properties of a variety of diketopyrrolopyrroles dyes.
Optical microangiography: watching the blood flow
Optical microangiography (OMAG), based on optical coherence tomography, can be used to visualize the microvasculature network under inflamed skin condition.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – April 2015
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
Enhanced Light Harvesting in Polymer Solar Cells
Enhanced light harvesting for polymer solar cells via ladder-type polymer donors.
Trapping and watching motile cells
A new approach enables rapid characterization of living suspension cells in 4 dimensions while they are immobilized and manipulated within optical traps.
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